My days are numbered. My doctors say that I have an incurable disease in my stomach that prevents me from eating. It is making me weaker by the day. I am in pain all the time. I feel like vomiting even though I have not eaten for days. My wife & children are worried that I will not live very long. If I had my way, I would have spared them this agony. If not for my religious beliefs I would have taken my life by now. I don't know whether I will still be alive to see the Shanthi Palliative Care Hospital, but I hope at least others will benefit by having a place of comfort & dignity in there last moment of life.

This is my story:

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One of the greatest gifts
is THE GIFT OF GIVING.
Giving Love, Giving
Compassion and Giving Hope.
I consider it am honour and
my pleasure to be able give
up my hair to help
Shanthi Foundation raise funds
to build the first
Palliative Care Hospital in
Sri Lanka, where there all be Love,
Compassion and Hope to the
people with life limiting illness.
My heartfelt gratitude to the
generous donors for helping
us to translate a vision in to reality

Nadieka de Silva

SO FAR WE HAVE:

Delivered clean water to over

40,000

school children & villagers

Deployed

4

nurses into Shanthi Nurses looking after over

100

patients at home

Providing sponsorship to

70

CKDu & Cancer patients

Currently distributing

1,200

cups of Kenda per month

Trained Doctors, nurses & allied health staff in Sri Lanka & India

800, 600, 100

respectively.

WINNERS OF THE SHANTHI FOUNDATION PALLIATIVE CARE HOSPITAL RAFFLE

Congratulations !!

1st Prize

2 Return Air Tickets to Hawaii with 5 days accommodation– Mr. Brian Drory

3rd Prize

4th Prize

5th Prize

Thank you to all of those who supported us by buying / selling the tickets over the last year!

LATEST PROJECT

HELP BUILD SRI LANKA’S FIRST PALLIATIVE CARE HOSPITAL

$ 209,000.00

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$25,000

VAJIRA & LARISSA’S FUNDRAISING RUN

$30,506 of $100,000 raised

Vajira is running 500km to raise AUD$100,000 towards the first ever Palliative Care Hospital in Sri Lanka. Since November 2016 he has already completed 434km of the 500km challenge by running several marathons and ultra marathons.

Larissa Tichon has also joined Vajira to support the cause. Larissa is a high-achieving elite athlete with Australian and World records in endurance running.

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LATEST NEWS

A very successful fundraiser! - A Night of Compassion

What a fabulous night it was! Shanthi Foundation recently had a fund raising dinner dance aptly named ” A Night of Compassion ” at the Don Moore Community Centre in Carlingford, on the 12th of March 2016. It was a highly anticipated event with the tickets being sold out 4 weeks in advance! The people who were lucky enough to get tickets for this thoroughly well organised event were not… Read more

Shanthi Foundation, a charity registered in Australia, has been helping Sri Lanka to develop palliative care and combat CKDu over the last two years. Due to the sheer numbers involved, the debilitating symptom burden, and the cost and expertise associated with treatment such as dialysis/transplantation, renal palliative care has become extremely important to manage the symptoms of these patients whether they are on an aggressive or conservative treatment pathway… Read more

A Night Of Compassion - 12 March 2016

Due to your generosity over the last few years, we are giving clean drinking water to over 40,000 school children in the CKDu affected areas to save our next generation, providing home based palliative care with Shanthi Nurses visiting CKDu & Cancer patients at home, providing Kenda made of organic rice to school children to encourage organic farming & nutrition and have donated over $300,000… Read more

WORK PLAN 2015 – 2017

HOME-BASED PALLIATIVE CARE

Looking after patients with life limiting illnesses in the comfort of their own homes, through the training of Shanthi Nurses with access to transport to the home.

KENDA (KUNDGI/PORRIDGE) PROGRAM

Aiming to improve the nutrition of kids in rural and remote areas of Sri Lanka through the distribution of a porridge made from native organic rice. This program will also support the growth and farming of the native organic rice in rural Sri Lanka.

EQUIPMENT DONATION PROGRAM

Acquiring new and used (but in good condition) medical equipment for re-purposing across various locations in Sri Lanka.

PATIENT AND FAMILY SPONSORSHIP

Providing an income to families where the breadwinner is suffering from a life threatening illness and can no longer work to support their family.

PALLIATIVE CARE TRAINING

Training for doctors , nurses & allied health staff through the Australian Institute of Palliative Medicine (AIPM), and other partner organisations in developing countries such as Sri Lanka & India.